Labrador is one of North America's best kept secrets and last great uncorrupted wilderness areas, a land until recently hidden from the modern world beyond the mountains of Quebec and the ice-chocked currents of the North Atlantic above Newfoundland. Oblivious to its stark beauty and ignorant of the then-abundance of fish, fur, and forest within the 800 miles of coastline to his north, 16th century explorer Jacques Cartier dismissed it as the land God gave to Cain.

This is the story of the Aboriginal and European, the sons of Cain, children of Eve, or simply the adventurers. It is the story of the mixed-race culture they forged by hand under some of the harshest conditions encountered by pioneers anywhere on earth. The story tellers are the Labradorians themselves, and they are masters of the craft. Few writers could duplicate the unerring sense of humor, pathos, and irony that emanates naturally from their artless tales.

The author has woven these into profiles of Labrador's dominant mixed-race communities and their seminal component - the Innu, Inuit, and European Settlers-Peoples whose first New World encounters took place on the shores of Labrador a millennium ago.